Victims of domestic violence at risk of further abuse are being advised to sleep in Occupy camps, in police stations and accident and emergency departments because of sweeping cuts across the sector, according to domestic violence charities.

AUGUSTA -- Gov. Paul LePage helped unveil a new advertising campaign Friday in his ongoing effort to reduce domestic violence. click image to enlarge violence awareness speakers: Gov. Paul LePage, left, Julia Colpitts, of the Maine Coalition to ...

AUGUTSA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - Governor LePage took aim at an issue he is very familiar with, domestic violence. As a child growing up LePage lived on the streets of Lewiston at times after escaping an abusive home. "Each and every one here today has been ...

Help victims of domestic violence and their children while skiing and snowboarding the slopes at Roundtop Mountain Resort on Feb. 11. It's National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, so organizers are giving winter sports lovers a chance to ...

High Point, N.C. - It's the number one crime High Point Police respond to every year. Each call requires at least two officers and thirty minutes of their time. One third of the homicides in high point are related to it. After years of battling domestic ...

The State Senate honored on Tuesday a police officer who was killed in Brooklyn last March after he responded to a domestic violence call. In the wake of his death, a bill toughening penalties for domestic abusers is now up for consideration. NY1's Zack ...

Last year two women were brutally attacked in Turkey by men who had already served prison time for domestic violence. Ayasun K., who had grown weary of her husband’s beatings, came forward and filed a domestic complaint against him. Three months later ...

An Atlanta lawyer for the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia has been named special prosecutor in the domestic violence case against Augusta Commission member Alvin Mason. The office of state Attorney General Sam Olens reported Friday that ...

A variety of factors could be leading to an upswing in domestic violence and mental health-related calls to police in the Shawnigan Lake area, according to the detachment commander. Sgt. Rob Webb noted that RCMP were busier than normal during ...

I first wrote this essay for a feminist forum, so it slants towards women; however, I modified much of what I wrote because as we all know, women are not the only ones who experience domestic violence. People with disabilities who experience ...

From Kosair Children’s Hospital and the Division of Pediatric Forensic Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine: • Remember, it is normal to feel frustrated when a baby or young child cries. • If you are feeling frustrated or ...

MIAMI -- A South Florida prison guard has been sentenced to one year behind bars for federal civil rights violations involving inmate abuse. U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga imposed the sentence Monday on 31-year-old guard Alexander McQueen. A second ...

A social worker said that children who end up with foster parents  without the legal process of adoption are prone to physical abuse. “This is because parents who don’t go through our process are not trained or briefed well,” said social worker Emma ...

The reports say that the average age of entry is just 14 and that more than 90 percent of those involved in prostitution in Israel are subject to severe physical abuse, often by their clients. Justifications abound for having prostitution be legal.

Real Housewife of Beverly Hill's Taylor Armstrong has been through hell and back over the past year. Fights with her castmates, verbal and physical abuse, and the suicide of her husband. Now the reality TV star is getting death threats toward her and her ...

Eric James Borges was teased his entire life for being different. Though he didn’t come out publicly until his sophomore year of college, he recalls emotional and physical abuse as far back as kindergarten for his differences. And though most children ...

MPs believe the problem has got so bad a new law is needed to protect victims from emotional and physical abuse. The all-party parliamentary group, following a six-month investigation, will say this week that stalkers should face substantial jail terms.

A man who admitted he chopped his wife to death, following months of emotional and physical abuse and suspicion of infidelity, was yesterday found not guilty of murder but guilty on the lesser count of manslaughter. The verdict against 49-year-old ...

An investigation into allegations of physical abuse of two students at a Redwood City elementary school has resulted in an arrest of a teacher at the school. Redwood City police say teacher Alexia Aliki Bogdisis in custody after a warrant was ...

California enacted the nation's first child abuse reporting law in 1963, but it only required physicians to report suspected cases of physical abuse. Amendments over the decades expanded the definition of who must report such cases. Other ...